Hannah at 15 months!

Hannah is 16 months now. It's amazing how quickly she went from crawling to walking. She is all over the place now and into everything. I want to say that she is more daring than Jae was at this age. She is a talker and jabbers all day. She still has her mood swings, but for the most part, she is a very happy little girl.

We went to the doctor and she got her vaccinations and my girl barely cried. She let out one cry and was fine after that! She must be like me and have a high tolerance for pain. LOL.

Hannah weighs 22 lbs 7oz and is 31-1/4" tall. The girl has a big head at 18.5".

Hannah's First Birthday!

Hannah is officially 1 year old! Where has the time gone?

Bill and I can't believe that it's already been a year since our beautiful girl was born. It really seems like just yesterday she was born and she was this tiny (ok, maybe not that tiny) bundle of joy. It's been a great year having Hannah in our lives.

Hannah was sick on her birthday so she wasn't the party animal I was hoping she would be. Instead, she was rather clingy and ended up sleeping with grandpa on a chair. Hannah celebrated her birthday with all of her friends and we played games and just hung out.

Her birthday theme was Care Bears (we call her Hannah Bear all the time). We had a traditional Korean first birthday where she wore the traditional Korean dress (hanbok) and we had a table full of rice cakes, fruit, and candy. It was a wonderful day to celebrate her first year.

For more pics, please check out the album. Hannah's 1st Birthday!

Bye Bye Wings..

On February 4, 2009, Hannah got her first haircut! Bill and I wanted to wait until she was 1 and since that is quickly approaching, we thought the time was right. Not to mention that she's got pictures coming up and I wanted a "do" that wasn't pigtails.

Hannah was a trooper in the little yellow car as the lady was cutting her hair. Leading up to this day, I had envisioned a little girl crying at the top of her lungs and lunging towards me to get out of her chair, but I got none of that. Obviously, my first experience with Jae was not as smooth as with Hannah, hence the apprehension I had going into this experience! I just have to say that Hannah has proven to be the opposite in many things from Jae. She sat so still and was so cooperative while they were cutting her hair, I was wondering who's child was sitting in the chair.

For those of you who have seen Miss Hannah, you know that she's got these "wings" growing at the back of her head. They two long pieces of hair that have grown faster than the rest of her hair. Well, we had those cut and now she's got a cut bob cut. We think it's cute. We think she likes it too.

Here are some pics..

Hannah update!

Hannah is now 10.5 months and she is all over the place. She has been crawling since November and now just gets herself around without any problem, and boy is she fast! She's got legs and arms of steel and lifts herself onto anything that can hold her weight.

Last week she was in the kitchen hanging onto a chair and she pushed it from the middle of the kitchen to the table! It was so amazing to see. We were wondering if she would be walking by her birthday, and by the looks of what happened today, she just might be!

Her two bottom teeth have come in and she is now cutting the top right tooth. This better explain the miss crankypants mood that she's been in lately!

For the past couple of months she has gotten into the habit of waking up in the middle of the night. Sometimes it's really easy to put her back to sleep, but other nights she just needs to be cuddled and/or fed and as much as I love to cuddle, it just breaks the flow of sleeping..you know what I mean? LOL. I just remember that Jae was a really good sleeper (even now, once he's out, a marching band could come through the house and he would sleep through it).

But Hannah is doing great and growing like a weed!

Our little crawler

Watch out..Hannah is on the move!

Over the weekend Hannah started crawling! It's so cute to see her little tongue sticking out while she's trying to get from point a to b. She seems so much happier now that she's on the move, although now Bill and I have to move things around (for safety) since everything seems to interest her! =)

I have to say that she's a pretty good listener when I tell her to leave certain items alone. She'll turn and look at me and give me a smile and start heading back to me.

I love my little Hannah bear.

Sitting Pretty

I just had to post some pictures of Hannah. We were having a mom and daughter morning while the boys were at swimming and decided to take some pictures.

She's like a deer in headlights

Right after bath time

Hannah at Six Months

Well, our little girl is growing up! Hannah just reached her sixth month on this planet!

She had her sixth month well-baby check-up and all is good.
Weight: 17.07 lbs (80% percentile)
Height: 27 inches (90% percentile)

She's met quite a few milestones and Dr. Rosenbloom says that she is growing on target. (FYI..if anyone needs a pediatrician in the LO area, Dr. Rosenbloom is awesome!)

OHHHHH..and my little Hannah Bear was a TROOPER when she got her vaccinations! She barely cried when they poked her..three times to be exact! I was prepared for the worst, but the first poke, nothing; second poke, whimper with small cry; third poke, cry; and then it was quiet! That's my girl.

Friday

So we had a rough Thursday night. Hannah was/is still feeling under the weather. Her temperature was soaring past 103 and she just looked miserable all night. She is staying home with Bill today and hopefully she'll be back to her old self. She slept in two hour intervals and woke up coughing all night. Bill and I weren't sure what it could be, perhaps she was teething or had an upset tummy? I'm thinking she was teething, but her temp was pretty high. She was putting everything into her mouth (but she always does this) and just drooling.

So needless to say that Bill and I were up pretty early this morning tag teaming the efforts. Jae was such a trooper. He slept through all the crying last night!

As I was getting ready this morning, Jae comes into the bathroom and says that Hannah pooped and it was this big (arms wide open) and weighed a 100 pounds! Wow!! LOL! And we think that relieved her temporarily. But last I spoke to Bill, she was still a little cranky. Poor Hannah Bear.

Sitting Up!

Hannah is growing up so fast! She has been developing in warp speed (so it seems) and becoming her own little person. I feel as though she's discovered so many things about herself in such a short period of time. I can't believe that in two weeks she will be 6 months! Sometimes it seems like just yesterday that we brought her home from the hospital.

She has been enjoying rice cereal, green beans and bananas!

She's been rolling around on the floor!

She's been sitting up!

She's still has her highlights and is giggly and cuddly as ever.

But of course I can't forget to tell you that she is also becoming a high maintenance girl! This must be 'payback' for Jae (he was/is one of the mello-ist kids I know). She definitely likes hanging with Mommy and hates to be alone in a room! She loves her Uncle Jake..bounce baby bounce bounce and being sung to. She DISLIKES car rides and will let you know it!

But everytime she flashes her gums, the 'crazy Hannah' disappears.

We love our little Hannah Bear.

Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde

My previous post talked about the crazy side of Hannah. Well, this post is about the cute, lovable side of Hannah.

How cute is she? It's moments like this that I will forget about what happened on Thursday = Screech!

Screech..Part II

Sooo...I'm heading home tonight and who does the same thing??

Typical, she fell asleep for the first 30 minutes and then woke up. I stopped at a gas station and was there for 30 min, doing the whole rigamarole and nothing. So I get on the road, just as I see a vagrant walking around the parking lot!

So I told myself that I was going to drive for 20 minutes (regardless of crying) and if she was still crying after the 20 minutes that I would stop, and of course keep going if she was asleep.

She cried the whole 20 minutes and as I was getting ready to pull off at the next best exit, I heard quiet. She had fallen asleep.

She slept the whole way home, during transport to her bed, and she should sleep through the night.

Here's to a good night!

Screech!

I was heading up to my parents' house on Thursday evening with Hannah in tow. Normally, she's pretty good about hanging out with me when driving up to Olympia, but Thursday night I saw another side to little Miss Hannah.

The first 30 minutes were typical. She fell asleep as I sat through the Portland traffic heading northbound. However, 10 minutes into Washington, she wakes up and starts screaming! At first I thought it would subside, but as I kept driving, she kept screaming. So I stopped at a gas station to comfort her and put her back in her seat so we can keep going. The moment I get on the freeway, the screaming starts again. I drive for 10 minutes more and pull off the freeway again. This time we spend like 20 minutes parked at a gas station. I change her diaper, I feed her, I pat her, I walk her around outside (thank goodness for summer light), and she seems pretty happy. So we are on our way and as I pass an exit on the freeway, she starts screaming again. By this time I've got Bill on the phone and I'm asking him if I should turn back around and go home or keep stopping and head up to my parents, because my level of patience was wearing VERY thin at this point..all of this while parked on an offramp with my hazards on..alone with a baby.

I end up staying on the side of the road on this offramp for 30 minutes trying to soothe this crying baby. She ends up spitting up all over herself from the crying, so I have to change her clothes. I decide to give her some tylenol to calm her down and within 10 minutes she was asleep. By this time, it's dark! The sun has set and I'm still parked on the side of the road with my hazards. I was praying that no one would stop by and knock on the window b/c I would have freaked!

Needless to say, she stayed asleep the rest of the way to the parents. And I'm sure come morning, she had no recollection of it at all.

SOOOOOO..

Rice, rice baby!

Hannah has started eating rice cereal. We actually started her earlier this month, but finally got around to posting a pic. She's been eating while sitting in the bumbo because we haven't fished her highchair out of the garage just yet (if you've seen our garage, you would know what I'm talking about).

She's been enjoying it for the most part. Next is oatmeal, yum-o...

Gremlins 4???

Apparently there was a Gremlins 3 that went straight to dvd..who would have thought?

Hannah has always had crazy hair..we think that she could star in the next Gremlins movie if they were to ever make one..Do you think she'd make a cute Gizmo?

Hannah and the Dinosaur

Grr..you can't eat me!
Did you happen to notice that the dinosaur is the same color as my bumbo? *giggle*

Source of the Grunwald Cold = Hannah Jane

Patient Zero

-- William Grunwald --
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